The Irish standard., 1887-12-10

pathy for US aid for our institutions.
But his experienced sagaeitv and


pathy for US aid for our institutions.
But his experienced sagacitv and
Els INTuITIyE FORESIGHT
also enable him to discuss the perils
which threaten our polity and Our pee
PIE !, mar, wl,t, has ias,ored and snf-
fsrecI so mucil Tor liberty i'll f1is Owl
native country cannot help feeling for
poor Ireland, whose struggles and throes
he watches with loving eyes. Ia part
1O4. which has just reached me, and
which describes the end of the CRU
sades. with the religious and social
troubles that followed, my eyes fell
(page 1917 on the following paragraph:
The lnqmsition during the centuries
of its existence did not, L believe, de-
stroy SO many lives as England did IN
eleven years(1641 52) to Protestanze
Ilels.ud Neither the InquisItion nor
England succeeded, because that in
ternal flame Of the human will blazes
forth when expressed, and is kept alive
by the effort made to extinguish it.
Ah. we}l--if any one can discover i'll
the authentic records OF the Inquisition
prison treatment more barbarous than
that which they are now lntllctlng on
the heroic William O'Brien, and for
what is it. at its worst, q political
offence, and what deem 8 most noble
act OF civic vlrtue-I should feel ln-
debfed to my teacher. Do not the
worst fires Of religious and political
fanatlcism which burned III the breast
Of Cromwell and that ether Balfour
still live in the bosoms Of Lord Sails
bury and his worthy nephew: But
and thank God for it--England in 1887
is beginning to know and to hate with
a thorough hatred the atrocious spirit
! which governed Ireland in 1857, and
which Dublin Castle had so skilfully
cherished ever since. But, while fam
ished ard maddened landlordism is
thus reseruing to such fatal extremities
and well.organized and disciplined
people are knit together in closer unity
and in invincible resolution by the
cruelties inflicted on their leaders, /
End that the great work OF national ed
ucation is being pushed on with an
ardor that knows Of no Tagging. Irish
men feel it, for do not the Sympathetic
voices of Protestant England, Scotland
and Wales tell them so-that home rule
cannot now be long deferred, and that
there will be careers enough and work
enough for their trained sons and
daughtsrsp So the schools we're never
so full, nor doing such admirable work.
And it rejoices the hearts OF SUCH men
as
cFsARE CANrU AND GLADSTONE
TO know that Irish scholarship
nourishes, in spite of Balfonr's inquisl-
tion, the most iniquitous and nncalled
for ti.at ever tortured Or maddeIed a
sensitive nation. Strange to say, the
most remarkable historical researches
now carried on in Ireland are bringing
unexpectedly. but proyidentially, to the
light of day, documents relating to the
fearful period extermiuation from l64l
10 1852 as we'll as TO the remaining half
of the seventeenth century's chronicles
i,, Ireland. Mr.. prendergraSt "a Protest.
an lawyer, by tho wayl- the author of
that most instructive work, The
Cromwellian Settlement in Ireland" I"
has, as your readers are probably
aware, Just brought out another volume,
continuing his thrilling story Of incred-
ible wrong doing. But more important
even than this timely book is the fourth
volume of Mr.. John T. Gjlbsrt's
Contemporary History containing
never before published documents
on the dark doings of that
same period in Ireland, 1641 81.
More than once, writing from Rome, [
expressed to the readers Of the Sun my
deep regret that prolonged illness pre-
vented Mr.. Gilbert from continuing for
Ireland such a labor as had enabled
Cantu to provide for Italy his History
Of the Italians" and his Cronistoria Or
"History of italian Independence" I"
Mr.. Gilbert has devoted his life to re-
searches carried out, not only in the
public archives and private libraries of
che three Kingdoms, but in continental
Europe, and resulting in a mass of
uuioue historical and authentic manu-
scripts relating to the reign of the
Stuarts, and never yet published: The
volume which be is now getting through
the press will startle the public, For
the documents it contains will upset
more than one inveterate prejudice,
more than one inveterate lie. But. I
must not say more of it in this letter.
The true and authentic history of Ire
land remains to be written. Mr.. Gill
bert is now furnishing the future his.
torian with the needful materials. His
patriotic spirit has drawn upon him
more than one sort Of persecution.
But he has succeeded No Irish scholar
lis more deserving of the gratitude Of
his cn,1ntrymen and the thanks Of the